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Israel’s Wix.com, a website development platform, has revealed its IPO plans, setting a range for the upcoming offering. The company expects to raise $119 million, pricing 7.7 million shares between $14.50 and $16.50 per share. If they sell shares at the midpoint of the range, they will have a market value of $719 million.

Founded in 2006, Wix has seen 14 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, largely due to an increase in premium subscriptions. They had revenues of $34.1 million, but operated at a $10.1 million net loss for the six months ending June 30, 2013. Wix initially filed in May, using the confidential filing provision enabled by the JOBS Act. Underwriters include JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets.

Wix plans to list on the Nasdaq, under the ticker, “WIX.” Wix will join 62 other Israeli companies listed on the Nasdaq, with a combined $33 billion market cap. NYSE hosts 16 Israeli companies, with a combined $51 billion market cap. Wix will be the largest U.S. IPO by an Israeli company since SodaStream International’s debut in 2010. Israeli-founded software maker, Varonis Systems, just filed for an IPO on Tuesday.

The outlook for 2014 remains strong, with Nasdaq EVP, Bruce Aust, predicting that 5-10 Israeli companies IPO in the U.S. between now and the end of next year. Nimrod Kozlovski, partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners, says to watch for “several IPOs in the information security and cyber area, and also several companies in ad tech.”

Some of the Israeli companies rumored to IPO include internet companies, Outbrain, Conduit, Borderfree and Kenshoo. Ad-platform Matomy is also expected to IPO in the first quarter of next year, according to co-founder Kfir Moyal. Says Moyal, “Israel has become a worldwide powerhouse for ad tech companies.” Moyal is also a co-founder of ad analytics company, BiScience, which plans to IPO in 2014 as well.

Not all promising Israeli companies have chosen the IPO route, with social map site, Waze, recently selling to for $1.1 billion and video advertising company, Adap.TV, going to for $405 million. The “M&A market in Israel was super super hot. A lot of companies that would have filed for an IPO, went by way of acquisition,” according to David Bratslavsky, executive director at U.S. Israel Business Council. Expecting their preference to change, Gil Gilanos, president of the U.S. Israel Business Council, says “Wall Street is ready to start with IPOs again and Israeli companies are ready to take advantage of that window.”